TASMANIA will use three former AFL bigmen as its towers of terror in attack against the NEAFL at Blundstone Arena on June 21.

In their first training run for the showdown, coach Brett Geappen used Bart McCulloch (Brisbane), Jason Laycock (Essendon) and Aaron Cornelius (Brisbane) as his hit-up men inside the forward 50m as the squad of 40 got to know the game plan.

After watching footage of the NEAFL side in action, Geappen took his men onfield for fast ball-movement drills, many of them taken by Tigers coach Adam Henley.

Geappen believes Tasmania’s “three peaks” could be the difference after he watched the NEAFL go down to the WAFL by 85 points two in Sydney weeks ago.

“They weren’t that tall down back, so I reckon if I plonk Cornelius, McCulloch and Laycock in the goal square we can really stretch them.